This really is us: Harry Styles says new documentary is true picture of life in One Direction

 
Photoshoot: Harry Styles at the secret launch bash
Miranda Bryant30 August 2013

Harry Styles today said One Direction wanted to show the band’s fans “what we’re about” with a new fly-on-the-wall documentary.

1D goes pop! The band and film director Morgan Spurlock chuck popcorn at the press
Dave Benett

This Is Us, which has its premiere tomorrow in Leicester Square, follows the five-piece at home and on tour in Japan.

At a press conference in a secret north London location — where the band bombarded photographers with popcorn — Styles, 19, said: “With social media and stuff you can only get so much across of your personality.”

Tidy up time: the boys survey the mess after the popcorn explosion
Dave Benett

He went on: “It was really strange having cameras around but at the same time it didn’t make that much of a difference because there weren’t any set-ups and stuff.

Take one: Harry larks about with a clapper board

"It was kind of like getting on with your day but there was someone in your way when you tried to get out of a door."

Liam Payne said: "I think at the moment we just want to see how this one goes to be honest with you.

"It's so nerve-wracking making the film and stuff. I was thinking the other day when we sit in the premiere and everybody is actually watching it on the big screen it's going to be amazing but I don't know, maybe we'll see how this one goes, see if people like it."

When asked why there was no sex or drugs in the film, Styles said: "This is a family press conference."

Louis Tomlinson added: "We like to think we're rock 'n' roll but we're not really."

One Direction pose with director Morgan Spurlock (far right) at the launch of their film One Direction: This Is Us 3D
Dave Benett

Director Morgan Spurlock said: “The thing I thought was incredible is that everywhere you go you realise it’s not just a UK or US phenomenon."

Harry's fellow band members Niall Horan, 19, Liam Payne, 19, Zayn Malik, 20, and Louis Tomlinson, 21, all feature in Spurlock's 3D film.

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